New public artworks: Hélène Amouzou’s In Between launched on The Line

In Between is a brand new public art series in Royal Victoria Dock. Six striking "analogue photographic portraits" are on display close to City Hall as part of the Line art walks.

Working with East London charity Praxis, artist Hélène Amouzou held a series of workshops with members of the charity, which supports migrants and refugees.

If you look closely at the artworks you'll see featured symbolic objects, chosen by the sitter, that speak to their individual journeys, their country of origin or their life in London. The suitcase is also shown as a way to show transit and flux. The artworks have been created using long film exposures and movement, a technique that gives Hélène's work a haunting and distinctive style.

The Line, which has commissioned the project as part of its 10th anniversary programme, also hosted the artist for a residency that took place in late April 2025. During the residency, Hélène carried out research into the collections held at London Museum Docklands and delivered a series of photographic workshops located at Trinity Buoy Wharf, leading to the development of portraits to be displayed in the public realm.

Audio recordings of the participants are now also available on The Line’s website and Bloomberg Connects App.

More about the artist
Hélène Amouzou was born in Togo, West Africa, in 1969 and has been living in Brussels (Belgium) for the last twenty years. In 2004, she went to study photography and video at the Académie de Dessin et des Arts visuels of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. Photography has proved to be the medium best suited for her artistic research and technical experiments. She prefers to work with film, which she sees as demanding greater attention to detail.

She creates her own distinctive and haunting imagery, which speaks to the contemporary issue of the people in exile and of those invisibilised.